Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images
Digital imaging is now available to all amateur astronomers at a reasonable price. The advent of CCDs, DSLRs and - perhaps most significantly - webcams mean today's astronomers can make colorful planetary or deep-sky images of breathtaking beauty. The results obtained with even modest equipment...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Springer London : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2007. |
Colección: | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series,
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements.-The myriad advantages of image processing (introduction)
- Choosing a camera
- Acquiring images (and choosing software)
- Displaying images
- Image reduction
- Flat fields
- Dark subtraction
- Image transformations
- Image stacking
- Image mosaicing
- Image scaling and histograms
- Background gradients
- Image enhancement
- Image sharpening
- Image unsharp masking
- Image deconvolution
- Handling colour images
- Achieving colour balance
- CMY or RGB?- Other problems
- Handling image sequences and webcams
- Image acquisition
- Image quality techniques
- Automated image processing
- What is best for
- Planets
- Deep Sky
- Widefield imaging
- The pitfalls
- Postscript
- Notes on image contributors
- Appendices
- Software
- Hardware + Software Suppliers
- References
- Further reading
- Index.